503 words To what extent are people influenced by printed media?In this essay I will talk about the extents that people are influenced by printed media. I will talk aboutpolitical agendas and allegiances, bias and about different types of printed media. I will also talkabout how people can be influenced by printed media and about how printed media influences ourpolitical agendas.Printed media consists mainly of newspapers and magazines. There are two types of nationalnewspapers: popular or tabloid newspapers and quality or broadsheet newspapers. Broadsheetnewspapers are normally bought by `more intelligent' people or people who want to learn. They alsotend to be bigger in length and width. Broadsheet newspapers also have more intellectual articles inthem. Tabloid newspapers are normally bought by people who want to read newspapers but notbroadsheets. They normally have general interest stories in them. People can be influenced bynewspapers easily as newspapers print what they want to. They also can be biased on a politicalbasis and this also influences us. Magazines are also a type of printed media. They tend to be targeted at an audience that don'twant to learn. A lot of the time the target audience is teenagers but for specialised magazines thetarget audience are fans of the specialised area the magazine deals with. In some educational articlesthey might have in the magazine, they will influence the reader to buy or do the certain thing thatthey want the reader to do, e.g. in a teen fashion magazine they could influence a teenage girl to buya certain bag etc. Magazines rely heavily on advertising. If a person sees an advert showing howgood the magazine is a few times then the person will be influenced to buy it. The more peopleseeing and buying the magazine, the bigger the profit they make. These tend not to bias on apolitical basis and so do not influence us in that way.Newspapers and magazines, but especially newspapers tend to side with a different political party.They can also have a political alignment e.g. the Daily Mail's political alignment is traditionalistconservatism. This means that they can be biased to different political parties and perhaps not writethe complete truth about political stories. Newspapers could also be right-wing (right-wing meaningthe conservative section of a political party or system) or left-wing (left-wing meaning the radicalsection of a political party or system). Some newspapers are neither and try to keep themselves asneutral as possible. This means that they can give coverage of politics without being biased. If anewspaper is biased, they will write articles biased against that political party. This means that theywill influence all the people who will read that article.In conclusion I think that people can be influenced to a big extent by printed media. They influencenot only our political views, but also what we buy and what we think. This shows the extent to whichpeople can be influenced.